I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
NEIL ARMSTRONGNow and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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